Canopy - Parental Control App
August 16, 2024
More About Canopy - Parental Control App
Take control of your family’s online safety with Canopy:
Real-Time Smart Filter & Porn Blocker
Harness the power of artificial intelligence to seamlessly remove pornographic content (and even partial nudity!) from websites and apps in milliseconds, ensuring a healthy, positive digital experience. Even better, our AI doesn’t block safe content – get the good without the bad!
Sexting Alerts
Monitors the camera on the protected device, preventing your child from sharing inappropriate photos, and notifies you immediately if a risky photo is detected.
Screen Time Management
Set DownTime and screentime limits for the protected device to limit internet use at specific times.
Removal Alerts
Get notified quickly if your child tries to remove or disable Canopy.
Website Management
Create a customized list of blocked or allowed websites to personalize your family's online experience.
Location Awareness
Keep up with your child no matter where life takes them using a detailed real-time GPS map.
App Management
Curate your child’s app collection. Block distracting and inappropriate apps and games.
Easy Monitoring
Receive convenient notifications when Canopy is doing its job of protecting your child online. We’ll notify you when we block inappropriate content or prevent inappropriate behavior from happening. You can adjust Canopy’s settings from your personal device using the Canopy for Parents app or Canopy web dashboard.
Free 7-day trial with every subscription! Subscribe monthly, or on an annual basis for best value.
*Important note: this app is the control app for the Canopy Shield app. You should download Canopy to your personal device. After you create your account, Canopy will lead you through the process for installing Canopy Shield on your child’s Android phone or Chromebook. For Canopy to work, you must install Canopy Shield on your child’s device.
If you are installing Canopy for yourself, you can download both apps on the same device.
Join over 100,000 families worldwide who trust Canopy to provide a safer online experience. Our app not only protects your kids - it also encourages responsible habits, transparency, and trust while creating opportunities for important conversations. Canopy empowers you to parent in the digital world, just like you do in the real one.
If you have any questions, our friendly customer support team is available every day from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m CT via phone or our help center site.
(888) 820-1918 / https://help.canopy.us/
Don't let the risks of the internet hold you back - download Canopy today and experience the digital world safely and positively.
Terms of Use - https://canopy.us/end-user-license-agreement
Privacy Policy - https://canopy.us/privacy
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August 16, 2024
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User Reviews
Jessica Evingham
1 year ago
For the most part the program does what it's supposed to. My only complaint is that It does slightly slow down devices and sometimes doesn't filter unless you open the app on the device first. Other than that, I can trust it to filter the devices my kids use daily, which puts my mind a little more at ease.
Brian Mavis
1 year ago
Definitely the best app I have used of this nature, proactively learns and blocks new content. Even across apps like Twitter, I have had some connectivity issues with certain apps. Like being able to update certain apps that aren't through the Play store, overall been a positive experience and recommends highly
Sarah Heidelberger
1 year ago
We've used Canopy for almost 2 years now and it's the best parental control app I've found. It's easy to use and works well across all devices in our home. I like the option for setting screen time limitations and times of day internet cannot be accessed so that there is screen down time in our home. Highly recommend!
Alysha Woodard
1 year ago
I've had this app for 6 months, and I've really liked it. It did a pretty good job filtering things, and I liked that it had a location tracker. However, for over 2 weeks now, our phones have been unprotected due to a "financial issue". I've proved that the money has been taken from my account, and talked to many, many, many customer support people. Still. Here I am waiting for the problem to be fixed.
Curtis Steinbacher
1 year ago
We love Canopy. It has a couple small quirks, but nothing that would knock off a star. It is definitively the best choice for us. I can get granular with protection filtering such as choosing the apps I want to be allowed. Some apps may have issues with the Canopy VPN, but this is easily fixed by bypassing it for a particular app. No parental control app is perfect; the best thing we can do as parents is talk to our kids regularly, but for the added peach-of-mind, Canopy is the way to go.
Nick Galiardo
1 year ago
The use of AI to evaluate images on the fly and block ones that meet a certain flesh threshold is brilliant. Challenge is this tool is effectively a broad spectrum antibiotic and destroys a lot of other innocuous web traffic in the process. 1 - the exceptions that need to be granted with the default settings is annoying for an admin. Have had to explicitly grant access to several religious news articles because they were about sensitive topics. 2- web speed tanks, causing some sites to fail
Jessica Denning
1 year ago
Problems with gliching after install which customer service helped me through. Worked great until I was charged twice for yearly subscription when I signed up for monthly. Haven't heard back after multiple attempts to contact them. I ended up calling my bank to help with these charges since canopy didn't seem to want to correct this. I'm not very happy with the app at all when it comes to messing with my money.
Sarah Croom
1 year ago
Overall, Canopy has helped me manage my three kids' cell phones. I like that you can set up downtime but wish I could pause them. If you want to temporarily change a downtime, you have to delete what is already there and then remember to go back and change them back. Customer service has been quick and helpful when I have had to contact. I definitely think there could be some changes made to be even better but I have used a few parental control apps & this one is the only one I have stuck with
Sarah & Brian Dostal
1 year ago
Canopy is a good and necessary safety net for our household. For various reasons we can't filter our whole-house internet, but with Canopy we can protect the devices/computers that need protecting. Occasionally it blocks too much, but I'd rather that than blocking too little. There are some minor holes in coverage (it will let you see the cover photo of a bad video but will block the playing of the video) but overall we're happy.
Tamara Gardner
1 year ago
The app didn't work well as the daily screen report never would refresh and seldom gave daily results. The location map sometimes worked, but not like it should have! My son also uninstalled the app when you were not supposed to be able to do that. The customer service was terrible! I could not get anyone to call me back. I only talked to an actual person 1 time and never got my issue resolved. After 3-4 emails and voicemails that were not returned, I canceled our subscription.
Rob Vitaro
1 year ago
We use Canopy on almost every device in our home, including my own personal computers and phone. I wanted to set an example for my kids that I too don't want to see the garbage out there. It works well in conjunction with Google Family Link to provide a solid barrier to almost everything. Installing can be tricky, but if you follow their guides you should be ok. It started acting strange on my old phone, but I had to upgrade anyway and things are fine now. Highly recommended for all parents.
Kate LaPlante
1 year ago
This has been a great tool for our family! The customer service team has been responsive and fixed problems when they have arisen. But it sometimes blocks access to things that are appropriate, such as pages on websites or Youtube channels that are not listed as "for kids" but have no inappropriate content. The VPN also causes connectivity issues with other apps at times, although whoever has the admin account can temporarily turn it off, take care of what's needed, and then turn it back on.
Adam Langdon
1 year ago
Canopy has been a valuable tool in helping keep our kids safe as we give them more freedom on the Internet. Setup initially took a bit of time, and we did notice some connection delays, but those seem to be getting better. I like the ability to be able to pause protection for a short period if something is blocked incorrectly. I also love that inappropriate images are blocked, so my kids can visit a site and not worry about risky content from ads even if the page itself is safe.
Tyson Merrell
1 year ago
Canopy is an amazing filter. It routes everything through their VPN and filters everything. The service used to slow things down a lot but over the last few years their service has gotten better. Apps work smoother than they have previously. The Canopy team is constantly working to improve how the service works. This app definitely works in keeping kids safe online but still giving them functionality on their devices.
Tiffani Munch
1 year ago
This has been a great app for my family! I tried several others before finally finding Canopy. I have a Samsung and my two sons recently switched to iPhones. It was so hard finding an app that would work cross-platform and I'm very grateful to have found what I was looking for in Canopy. I particularly like the photo filter on the web 👍
Krysten Merrell
1 year ago
This app has kept my family safe! You can use it on multiple devices and pause protection for various amounts of time, if needed. I find I need to pause protection occasionally to do updates or access certain sites/apps that Canopy slows or blocks (like Google Maps, for some reason). While it does slow things down, it's worth it to me! This means it is blocking content BEFORE getting to devices instead of like a major competitor, which just alerts parents if inappropriate things come up.
diecar128
1 year ago
Does what it advertised. Blocks whatever you want. However it now takes about 20x longer to load a YouTube video or a Google search. I tested by activating and deactivation and the phone loaded everything way faster without this activated. Is there a way to avoid this? I'd love to keep paying for this after the trial but unusable slow speeds is a deal breaker.
Ryan Roberts
1 year ago
Canopy is an integral part of keeping our family safe online. It blocks inappropriate pictures and video from coming through. While not perfect, it is very effective by using an AI engine to determine if the content is safe. We also use an accountability program. Between the two, we have a complete solution. After a full week of searching, Canopy is the best one I've found to block content we don't want to see.
Chip Mills
1 year ago
We have used the canopy app to put "guard rails" on our two teenage son's smartphone devices about 9 months ago. In addition to doing a very good job providing common sense context filtering, we were about to effectively establish some time limit to usage. We were initially met with some resistance, but once we worked through a few configuration tweaks, we had a solid solution with their complete buy-in. I would certainly recommend this app to any parent wanting to accomplish the same goal
Becky Kinney
1 year ago
I tested out multiple filtering softwares on multiple devices at the same time. What impressed me the most about canopy was its ability to filter images. Raising boys I'm concerned for them to accidentally come across pictures that they shouldn't. Having canopy on their devices gives me peace of mind that they are protected as best as they can be. Any problems that I've run into I have contacted customer support and they've been polite, professional, a efficient in fixing my problems.
